Britain Yearly Meeting and the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham have announced the launch of a joint development initiative.
Huddersfield and Wooldale Meeting Houses were among the places of worship that opened in the wake of the murder of Jo Cox, MP, on 16 June. The Meeting houses opened that evening to…
Breckenbrough, the Quaker special school in North Yorkshire, has announced that headmaster Geoff Brookes will leave in summer 2017.
Fifty Friends gathered in York on 11 June to discuss the value and effectiveness of Meeting for Worship.
The programme at the 2016 Irish Famine Summer School and National Famine Conference includes a session on Friends’ contribution to famine relief.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has terminated a contract with security services firm G4S. G4S had provided maintenance for the access control system at Friends House for more than…
Trident Ploughshares has designated June 2016 a month of daily direct action against Trident renewal. The campaigning group has called on supporters to ‘resist, protest and…
Almost sixty Friends will meet in Swanwick, Derbyshire, between 17 and 19 June for the Annual Conference of Treasurers (ACT).
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has rejected an appeal from a group of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff regarding the use of their taxes.
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